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# Nithish Anand B

@nithizh · Coimbaotre India · Joined November 2026

Java Backend Engineer | Spring Boot | Microservices | Kafka | Cloud-Native Systems

### [Why We Replaced Kafka with NATS — And Never Looked Back](https://nithizh.hashnode.dev/why-we-replaced-kafka-with-nats-and-never-looked-back?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

How a SaaS platform solved the enterprise firewall problem and why NATS turned out to be a better fit than Kafka for async microservice communication.

15 min read · [nithizh.hashnode.dev](https://nithizh.hashnode.dev/why-we-replaced-kafka-with-nats-and-never-looked-back?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[9h ago](https://hashnode.com/posts/why-we-replaced-kafka-with-nats-and-never-looked-back/6af73c2c0c2b85d16a3db19c)